Yearly - Template

1851 Emigration

Outfitting Station	Departure	Captain	Souls	Wagons	Arrival in Salt Lake City
Kanesville	May 1	John G. Smith	150		Sept. 23
Kanesville	May	David Lewis	68	15	Sept. 9
Kanesville	May 15	Almon Babbitt	150		Aug. 17
* Kanesville	June 21	Cummings/O. Pratt	100		Oct. 5
* Kanesville	June 29	Easton Kelsey	100		Sept. 23
Kanesville (PEF) Alexandria, MO.	July 7 May 2	John Brown J.R. Baker & others	195 @50	48 20	Sept. 28 Alex. across from Keokuk
Kanesville		George W. Oman			Sept. 1
* Kanesville	Jun 9	Morris Phelps	60		Sept. 26 - Oct. 1
Garden Grove Kanesville	May 17 Jun 23	Harry Walton	226	59	Sept. 21
Kanesville	July 1	John Reese	40
Kanesville	Aug. 3	Thomas Williams			after Dec. 31
Kanesville	>Aug. 12	Wilkins		10	after Dec. 31
Kanesville	Aug 10	Ben Holliday			after Dec. 31
Kanesville		Livingston/Kincade			after Dec. 31
Williams, Wilkins, Ben Holliday, Livingston/Kinkead freight trains, (1) unidentified train * Used Wet Variant Route
Totals:			@2000	@400

More than 800 wagons, 4000 sheep, and 500 head of cattle crossed the plains, under the direction of Orson Hyde, at Council Bluffs, and Wilford Woodruff at the outfitting station at Bethlehem, Iowa (also known as Bethlehem or Martin's Ferry), 20 miles south for a migration of not less than 5000 Saints (DUP). Woodruff's company was heavily loaded with new machinery and household goods. All companies followed the Ox Bow Variant; the Snow/Young, Warren Foote, and Wilford Woodruff companies used a cutoff [near Rocky Ridge]; the Evans company and the 4th and 5th Tens of the Foote Company used the Golden Pass Route. There was much disagreement and dissension this year with companies and small groups separating and combining. Numerous non-Mormon companies were on their way to Oregon, Calif., the States, freighting or driving herds.

March 29, 1850, Apostle Franklin D. Richards arrived in England to cooperate with Apostle Orson Pratt, in the British Mission, and immediately introduced the subject of the PEF to the British Conferences. This fund, started by Mark and Charlotte Shelly of Woolwich, England, who gave two shillings and six pence. The first company of PEF emigrants was organized on July 4, 1850. It consisted of 261 persons, 67 wagons, 106 yoke of oxen, 114 cows, 10 horses, 19 sheep, 19 dogs, 6 cats, and 6 doves, besides 40 loose cattle belonging to individuals, of which, 5 wagons, 55 yoke of cattle, 41 cows and 27 loose cattle belonged to the PEF.